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The first one uses the subprocess module and you enter the 
input and output filenames on the command line. 
The second one was my first attempt which uses os.system and raw_input. 
 
#!/usr/bin/python
from subprocess import call
import os
import sys
 
def usage():
    print \
"""Usage:
python program_name input_filename output_filename
python convert_ogg.py input.ogv output.avi
"""
 
def convert():
    mencoder = '/usr/bin/mencoder'
    input = sys.argv[1]
    arg1 = '-ovc'
    arg2 = 'lavc'
    arg3 = '-oac'
    arg4 = 'mp3lame'
    arg5 = '-o'
    output = sys.argv[2]
    call([mencoder, input, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, output])
    if os.path.exists(output):
        print '\n\tYour', output, 'was created sucessfully!'
        sys.exit()
    else:
        print '\n\tERROR!'
        print 'The', output, 'was NOT created!'
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) < 3:
        usage()
    else:
        convert()
 
 
#!/usr/bin/python
#Filename = ogg_to_avi.py
 
import os,sys
 
print '\n\togg theora video to avi video\n'
ogg = raw_input('Enter the ogg file to convert: ')
avi = raw_input('Enter the avi to be created: ')
#os.system("%s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s" % ('mencoder', ogg, '-ovc', 'lavc', '-oac',
#   ' mp3lame', '-o', avi))
 
os.system("mencoder %s -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o %s" % (ogg, avi))
 
if os.path.exists(avi):
    print '\n\tYour', avi, 'has been created.\n'
    sys.exit()
 
else:
    print 'error, something went wrong!'
    sys.exit()